Novels like The Mortal Path Begins in Humble Origins
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- 151 Reborn as an Outer Sect Disciple: One Shout, and I'm Punished with Pig Farming? 重生外门，一声吼，罚我养猪？ A mighty immortal cultivator is reborn in the Outer Sect, only to be sentenced to raise pigs? Ye Tian possesses a top-grade fire spirit root and commands the Mountains and Rivers Purple Fan’s inner space. He cultivates alchemy, formations, talismans, and body refinement, with every divine ability at his disposal. The once-mighty cultivator has returned. Those who bullied, humiliated, or betrayed me will all pay the price! 1.3kReads8.6Score10114d adds
- 152 The Legend of the Purple and Azure Demon-Slaying Swords 紫青伏魔传 During the Wei, Jin, and Shu Han period, the vast lands of the Central Plains were swept by a thriving trend of mysticism and immortal cultivation. This world was home to the Celestial Realm, the Human Realm, the Demon Realm, and the Ghost Realm. Cultivators lived in seclusion among famous mountains, great rivers, and drifting clouds, with Mount Emei renowned above all. The story begins in a small village in Shu called Yuyang. Its protagonist, a boy named Bai Yunfei, grew up there with his paren 526Reads—Score10614d adds
- 153 Chronicles of Ling Qi 灵炁录 This is a world teeming with spiritual energy, home to countless factions. But the emergence of the demon race changed everything. Heaven and earth were overturned, and the sun and moon thrown out of alignment. Li Xuan, a heaven-blessed prodigy born in response to the will of this world, is about to stir up a storm and save its countless living beings. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 154 Ascend by Lifting the Sun 举日飞升 Across the boundless cosmos, the will of Heaven cuts like a blade. If you cannot set foot on the path to immortality or sever the wheel of fate, how can you transcend to the other shore and ascend at will? Humanity’s eras have turned, and technology has advanced at breakneck speed. Yet the ancestral planet of old has become a wasteland. Humanity has flourished through continuous interstellar migration, discovering new cultivation arts throughout the galaxy. Humanity calls them the New Arts! —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 155 The Source Calamity: Path to the Heavens 源劫天途 On the Tianyuan Continent, people focus on cultivating source energy, and reverence for the strong is the ironclad rule. The protagonist, Hua Fan, starts with nothing, overcomes countless hardships, and reaches the pinnacle of the continent. Hua Fan's legendary journey begins here. The other characters are just as vividly portrayed, from the loyal and righteous Mu Yexin, to Liao Tianyang, a mentor and friend who leads by example, and Mu Wanting, who sees life as countless days of spring sunshine 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 156 Who Is Weaving Fate? 谁在编织天命？ A protagonist without a chosen-one destiny, told through a multi-threaded ensemble narrative. Each volume has a different protagonist, but they all share one world and one timeline. Family bonds, social satire, the darkness of human nature, and love's endless cycles all unfold in this world. 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 157 An Evil Cultivator? Even a Dog Wouldn't Be One! That's Exactly What I'll Be 邪修？狗都不当！当的就是邪修 [Nontraditional cultivation] [Excellent short novel] Gou Busheng is obsessed with becoming a superior person... [Not a power fantasy, and not brainless] [No runaway inflation] [Subverts the usual tropes] [No System] [Female lead] 159Reads—Score—14d adds
- 158 The Sword That Slays Ten Thousand Dao 剑灭万道 I wield a sword that can destroy ten thousand Dao! [Decisive and ruthless + fast-paced + not depressing + characters with brains] Are all mortals mere ants? If an ant is strong enough, even the Three Thousand Great Daos will bow before it! 1.3kReads8.6Score10514d adds
- 159 A True Record of Cultivation 修真实录 What’s your goal? “To become an Immortal Emperor, or at the very least an Immortal Venerable!” Do you have anything going for you? “My parents are both dead, I’m average-looking, I have all five spiritual roots, and I don’t even have a master...” Emmmm, all right. Do you have any special skills? Xiao Han thought carefully for a moment. “Does treating spirit beasts count?” A veterinarian? “...” 3.1kReads8.6Score25814d adds
- 160 Mysterious Ascension 玄昇 The bustling world is no home for a Taoist. To cultivate the Way, one must travel far and wide. If you ask where my Way lies, I’ll point to the sky, the earth, and the eight directions. Sixteen-year-old Gu Xiaobei had never wondered what the world beyond his home was like. Then one day, an old Taoist told him about it, and the people around him began leaving one by one… 35Reads—Score—14d adds
- 161 Temper the Mortal Heart in the Forge of the Sword 凡心淬剑 [Pure mortal cultivation | No System, no wish fulfillment | Slow-burn ascetic cultivation | A journey of character | Proving the Dao with a mortal heart] With a mortal-grade spiritual root, it is hard to draw in qi. He joins an immortal sect, yet no one takes notice. No background, no cheats, no lucky encounters, no heaven-defying talent or fortune. All he has is an old wooden sword and a mortal heart that refuses to admit defeat. People look down on me, laugh at me, bully me, and abandon me, a 61Reads—Score—14d adds
- 162 A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality: Chronicle of Heaven's Mandate and Reincarnation 凡人修仙：天命轮回志 A mortal’s journey of cultivating the heart. No System, no transmigration, no rebirth, and multiple heroines. [Observe all things, defy fate, command reincarnation] By a twist of fate, the ordinary Qin Guan inherits the art of divine observation, allowing him to see through all techniques at a glance and glimpse the workings of fate. He only wanted to quietly protect his childhood sweetheart as she pursued immortality in peace, but is forced into a vast conspiracy sweeping across the Three Realm 7Reads—Score13714d adds
- 163 The Xunlin Illusory Mirror 巽蔺幻镜 He should have abandoned his true nature… Kindness invites weakness, and having someone you cherish gives you a weakness. My body is like steel. My heart is like dark iron. I must not answer the calls of others. Only my own heartbeat echoes around me. When my heart trembles, you will be reduced to dust. I don't want to write flashy plays or wish-fulfillment stories. I only want to use the most authentic scenes to capture the mysteries of life and death, and the sparks that fly between emotions. —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 164 Cultivation: My Golden Finger Is a Bit of a Trap 修仙之我的金手指有点坑 [Space Farming + Cautious Cultivation + A Protagonist Who Knows Who Deserves What + Wildly Imaginative Technology] (This isn’t a completely traditional cultivation novel. The protagonist has a golden finger, but he has to put in the effort to develop it himself. He isn’t a bleeding heart and kills decisively. There’s no female lead; he is wholly devoted to proving the Dao and becoming an immortal.) After inexplicably transmigrating to a cultivation world, Chen Ge finds himself without astounding 798Reads6.3Score10314d adds
- 165 Such Is the Otherworld 彼界如此 Whatever you do, you’re an amateur. Read ten thousand books, and you’re still a fool. No matter how deep your schemes, they can never outwit fate. Yet sometimes, doing nothing succeeds where effort fails. Though destiny cannot be defied, there is still a way to make your mark. Another world, and yet the same world. The male protagonist transmigrates to the other realm with incomplete memories and starts from nothing. He is neither wholly righteous nor wholly wicked, and dares to love and hate. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 166 Stop Raising Me, or I'll Become Invincible 别养了，再养我就无敌了 [No System • Mortal cultivation • Not a power fantasy • No heroine • Coming of age] What if the opportunity to become an immortal had been a scam from the very beginning? What if the world's greatest martial sovereign were chained in the deepest part of the dynasty? What if the boy who would save all living beings carried within him the source of disaster that everyone coveted? When the truth is revealed, the so-called immortal opportunity is nothing more than a delicacy on a cultivator's dining 4Reads—Score—14d adds
- 167 The Mortal’s Path to Immortality 凡人化仙诀 Can an ordinary person without spiritual roots really not cultivate immortality? There are three thousand paths to the Great Dao, and all roads lead to the same destination. Cultivators can choose any path and set foot on the road to immortality, but those without spiritual roots are excluded! That may be the way things are, but it need not be so. Heaven’s workings follow a pattern: the Great Expansion has fifty numbers, of which forty-nine are used, leaving one chance for humanity to contend fo 2.8kReads8.2Score32214d adds
- 168 The Day the Strongest Was Reborn, His Fiancée Came to Break Off the Engagement 强者重生当天，未婚妻上门退婚 [A power fantasy with decisive killing, no saintly heroics, and an all-rounder protagonist] Lin Chen was a living legend of the Tianwu Continent. His mastery of martial arts, alchemy, weapon forging, bloodlines, and formations had all reached the pinnacle of the Tianwu Continent. But he fell after being betrayed by his beloved and his sworn brother. Two hundred years later, he was reborn in the body of a good-for-nothing. On the very day he was reborn, his fiancée showed up to break off thei 561Reads6.9Score10914d adds
- 169 The Eternal Dao Manual 永恒道诀 Beneath the wasteland of the Myriad Worlds lie the darkest secrets of antiquity: emperors perished, gods and demons bled. A rusted, mottled spearhead, however, has endured through countless ages. The youth Lin Yu accidentally activates the spearhead and learns the Eternal Art. From then on, he rises step by step, towering over all the heroes of the ages! 547Reads6.5Score—14d adds
- 170 Seeking the Dao of Immortality, Starting with Five Spirit Roots 从五灵根开始问道长生 Having a Five-Element Spirit Root? No problem! Being twenty-six or twenty-seven and only at the third level of Qi Refining? No problem! Living in a shantytown with terrible living conditions? No problem! Now that I have the panel, everything else will follow! 331Reads5.9Score—14d adds
- 171 The Realm of Immortal Aspirations 望仙境 [A Record of a Mortal's Journey to Immortality] [No transmigration] [No System] [One heroine] The grandfather who had been by his side for nine years turned into a black cat when he died... He always thought he was an ordinary country boy, only to discover he had a shocking background... His older sister is hidden inside an immortal pearl and possesses countless cultivation techniques, yet she cannot teach him any of them... He has the worst spiritual roots in the world, yet is accepted into the 116Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 172 Slay Immortals to Prove the Dao 弑仙证道 With a single thought, myriad worlds are born; with a single thought, myriad worlds are destroyed. He has endured countless cycles of reincarnation for her alone! A young man with a blurred silhouette stood in the void and murmured, “I have reached the ultimate limit of my own Dao! He said I had won, but in the end, I still lost!” With a sigh, the vortex filling the void roared like a boundless, raging sea. He was its master. He began with four spiritual roots and a dream, which unfolded atop a 337Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 173 The Era of Secret Arts: I Create Monsters from the Start 秘术纪元：开局我就创造怪物 [Sole Protagonist + Character Arc + Mystery + Epic Destiny] To bring his dead sister back to life, Lin En touches a forbidden aspect of life, only to get a monster wearing her skin in return. He gains the Eye of Truth and the Tree of Truth, allowing him to see through every illusion and decipher the rules of all things, but he doesn’t realize that he is gradually losing himself. The Church of Immortality sacrifices the masses to forge gemstones. Wicked sorcerers strip souls from their bodies to 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 174 Record of the Five Elements Burning the Heavens 五行烬天录 [No System, not invincible] [Kills while laughing and crying] [Five Elements] [High IQ] [Can play the fool or fight head-on] On the Five Elements Continent, all things have a spirit. Who says spiritual energy can only be divided into the five elements??? I’m not within the scope of your five elements!!! The “good-for-nothing” raised on handouts from the whole village turns out to be a taboo of the continent! With the gluttonous big brother at his left, wielding a technique that devours heaven an —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 175 Imperial Bloodline 帝脉 [Highly Recommended! Exhilarating Fantasy, Razor-Sharp Pacing, Blood-Pumping Action, Decisive and Ruthless, No Pathetic Setbacks!!!] Young Lin Xiao was betrayed by his fiancee. On a rainy night, she stole his Dao Mark and crippled his meridians, leaving him unconscious in bed for two whole years! As his soul scattered and he died full of hatred, he awakened the memories of his past life as an Immortal Realm Emperor! The betrayer of years past had now become the Immortal Realm's foremost Heavenly 2.4kReads8.2Score26514d adds
- 176 Peerless Sword God 绝代剑神 In an age of taboos, the Chaos Sword Master seals the heavens with a single strike and sets the reincarnation of myriad worlds in motion! Nine divine swords capable of destroying heaven and earth! A legacy that surpasses gods and demons! The youth Su Chen rises against fate from within chaos, shatters taboos, and lays the heavens low! 1.2kReads7.9Score14914d adds
- 177 There's a Sword Inside Me 我体内有把剑 My name is Ye Jin. I wield an ordinary sword and have reincarnated nine times. With only a man and a sword, I'll carve out my own path to invincibility. There's a sword inside me. No matter how powerful you are, even if you rule the Nine Heavens and Ten Lands, one stroke is all it takes. 1.9kReads8.8Score16014d adds
- 178 The Hidden Eastern Treasury of the Violet Palace 紫府东藏 A thousand cups of wine amid the mortal world, a pot of tea for an everlasting legacy. True love has never lasted since ancient times; only clever schemes can win people's hearts. The sons and daughters of the Jianghu roam the Jianghu, smiling to fulfill old wishes and burying grudges with a laugh. Even when all paths seem lost, shoot an arrow through the clouds, and thousands of troops will come to your aid! 775Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 179 The Cautious Blade Cultivator 苟刀修 Before him, there were no saber cultivators! Those who wielded sabers were no different from cultivators who wielded other weapons! After him, saber cultivators came into being! Not because he created the Way of the Saber! Nor because he wielded the saber to perfection! But because the saber in his hand struck terror into the hearts of countless cultivators! 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 180 The Heaven-Defying Art of Creation 逆天功法天地造化诀 Fantasy. Xingtian, the personal disciple of a top sect’s leader, breaks through the spatial passage of a teleportation array during a sect mission. He crashes into Myriad Beast Mountain, gravely wounded and on the brink of death, where the old master of the Su family happens upon him and saves his life. Seeing him fall from the sky with his identity shrouded in mystery, the old master makes only one request: Xingtian must accept a beautiful fiancée who seems like a celestial maiden. But Xingtian 5.1kReads8.8Score62014d adds
- 181 Burial Realm Tomb: Grandpa Wants Me to Send Him Money Down Below 葬界墓：爷爷要我给他寄钱下去 “Grandson! It’s your grandpa. Get me some money, quick. Your grandpa’s broke, and there are loads of treasures buried in the old courtyard back home!”... Wang Yu jolted upright in bed, eyes wide, breathing hard, cold sweat pouring down his body. This had been happening for over a month now. Every day, he had the same dream. In it, his grandfather, who had been dead for many years, stood before him with a kind expression, always urging him to return to their hometown. 3Reads—Score—14d adds
- 182 A Cautious Cultivator: My Sister and I Become Gods with the Pure Bottle 苟道中人，我与姐姐净瓶成神 [Mortal’s Journey + Slow Burn + Playing It Safe + No Harem] Alternate title: A Good-for-Nothing Water-and-Fire Spirit Root? Watch Me Become a God! A mysterious black dog falls from the sky, shattering the quiet life of Gou Sheng, a cowherd who had always been content just to get by. Gou Sheng has good-for-nothing water-and-fire spirit roots. Water and fire should be incompatible, leaving him with no chance of reaching immortality. But a mysterious black dog and a jade purification bottle turn 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 183 The Righteous Path to Demon Slaying 屠魔正道 [Traditional cultivation + no System + ordinary mortal’s journey] Demon cultivators slaughtered her village, but a child on her way into the city to sell medicine escaped the massacre and embarked on the path of cultivation. After awakening her spiritual roots, she swears to use the blade in her hand to slay every demon and monster. 1Reads—Score—14d adds
- 184 Xuanhuan: From Martial Arts to Godhood, Starting with Awakening a Divine Godhead 玄幻：武道通神，从觉醒神格开始 [Traditional Fantasy, Seriously Thrilling, Invincible] [Wait, I made soap, and now you're telling me I can cultivate immortality and become a god?] When Lu Qingyun transmigrates to ancient times, he walks out the back door with homemade soap made from wood ash in hand. He thinks this is the standard comeback story for a transmigrator: use modern knowledge to become a rich man in this impoverished ancient world and marry three or five beautiful wives... Unfortunately, fate's twists and turns are —Reads—Score—14d adds
- 185 The Invincible Sword God 无敌剑神 Above the Divine Ruins, the invincible Sword Emperor Qingdi was ambushed by three Supreme Lords at the crucial moment when he was about to break through to become a Sword God. He died, his spirit destroyed, but was reborn with the Nine Ruins Heavenly Prison Tower. With a sword in hand, the world is mine. Whoever refuses to submit will be cut down with one strike! If we fight, we fight to the bitter end. If we kill, we leave rivers of blood. What? You want me to show off? Then I’ll show off until 6.4kReads8.4Score68414d adds
- 186 Heavenly Sword Ancestor 天行剑祖 A mortal's journey, with no System. The human, ghost, and demon races inhabit three separate continents. Though they occasionally clash, their conflicts have never threatened the foundations of their world over countless millennia. That changed when the Demon Lord appeared, intent on destroying the cosmos and claiming its core. Baiyang, the Lord of the Realm, rose to resist him. He fought the Demon Lord Wuxin to a standstill for endless ages, but the crisis was never resolved. The struggle betwe 455Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 187 The Azure Severance Diagram 苍绝图 [Urban High-Power Martial Arts + Spiritual Qi Revival + Invincible] “Let battle blood ring through the Yellow Springs, and offer killing intent to all living beings.” Amid the chaos of the desolate mountains and seas, with the Heavenly Dao shattered in Pangu’s primordial universe, urban youth Xun Zhen fought a bloody battle in the Source Sea of the Barbarian Ancient Realm. He returned to the Primordial Realm to mend the Heavenly Dao and vie for supremacy across the vast spiritual heavens, fighti 2Reads—Score—14d adds
- 188 Nuwa's Path 女娲之路 This story takes place in the Age of Declining Dharma. It explores ideas of immortality and the Dao, as people navigate a world where humans and ghosts are hard to tell apart, the spirit of the technological age has grown barren, the industrial age is awash in material desire, and wisdom has withered in the age of intelligence. Amid a world of chaos and madness, the goddess Nuwa brings a glimmer of order and reason. As the world teeters on the brink of destruction, how will anyone shoulder the i 14Reads—Score—14d adds
- 189 High Martial: The Ledger of a Path to Heaven 高武：武道通天账 This is a story of slow growth and standing proudly in the world. The Nine Sects rule the land, while humans, demons, and strange beings vie for supremacy. Demons eat humans, strange beings eat humans, and humans eat one another, too. Zhao Yuan, a young hunter, narrowly escapes death at the hands of a demon, only to learn the secret of his origins. He finds a legacy and meets a mentor, then sets out on the path to becoming a Great Emperor amid the chaos of the age. Looking back, a song of Liangz —Reads—Score13414d adds
- 190 Bro, Stop Simping. You're Already at the Nascent Soul Stage 兄弟别再舔了，你都元婴了 [Multiple female leads] [Not mindless] [Forbidden master-disciple romance] [Tormented love] Lin Qiu and Guo Chong are the best of brothers. They transmigrate together to the cultivation world of Cang Xuan Continent, where they both awaken Systems. Lin Qiu awakens the Get-Beaten System: taking a beating makes him stronger, and the harder the beating, the stronger he gets. Guo Chong awakens the Simp System: win over one cultivation partner, and become invincible within one major cultivation realm. 6Reads—Score—14d adds
- 191 You Told Me to Train in Martial Arts, and I Became an Ancestral Shaman 让你练武，你练成了祖巫 [爽文] [No Protagonist Suffering] [Status Panel] [Traits] [Invincible] Wang Da'an transmigrates to the Tianyuan Continent, where the Great Shang Dynasty reigns supreme, ruling over eight hundred vassal states. The various sects contend for the Dao, bringing calamity upon the Myriad Worlds. The world descends into chaos, and the people are left in misery. He begins his path to immortality as a prison guard, using the body of an Ancestral Shaman to crush the Myriad Worlds beneath his heel. One man, 1.9kReads6.0Score10014d adds
- 192 A Very Detailed Guide to Cultivation 很细的修仙 This is a cultivation novel about proving the Dao, and it is unlike other books! A world of cultivation, fantasy cultivation This is cultivation, but more than that, it is the cultivation of the heart… This book blazes a distinctive new trail for cultivation novels. After it, a whole new kind of cultivation story focused on cultivating the heart and attaining enlightenment will emerge. (The names of the cultivation stages in this book remain unchanged: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, 302Reads8.1Score—14d adds
- 193 Heavenly Revelation Divine Diagram 天启神图 The Great Sun fell, and the Great Night withdrew from the world, allowing the demonic path to run rampant and plunging the realm into chaos. The young Jiang Chen stumbles upon a Divine Revelation Map. Accompanied by a talking rabbit, he sets out to exterminate demons and banish evil, saving the people from dire straits. 249Reads5.6Score—14d adds
- 194 System: I Can Level Up Without Limits, but I Want to Stay Healthy 系统：我能无限升级但我要养生 Nightfall, pedestrians, traffic, motorcycles, electric lights: a handful of ordinary things. A girl, a car accident, a truck, an emergency room, failure: together, they make something extraordinary. Twenty-one grams could be half an egg, half an orange, or half a sausage. It could also be the weight of an entire soul. After losing those twenty-one grams, Zhang Xu opened his eyes in the underworld… 3Reads6.6Score—14d adds
- 195 Across the Celestial River 横跨天河 “I have no name.” “If I must be called something…” He paused, his gaze sweeping over the shattered ten dimensions and the remnants of the myriad heavens: “I am the source of all darkness.” “I am the beginning of all evil.” “I am the incarnation of unforgivable wickedness.” “I am ‘Calamity.’” 1.1kReads9.4Score10414d adds
- 196 A Mortal's Path to Greatness 凡人的通天之路 An unknown mortal finds a rare treasure and embarks on a thorny path of cultivation. The road to the heavens is never easy. It must be forged through endless conflict, step by step toward worlds without end. He has seen the splendors of the world, yet never forgotten who he was. 13.3kReads8.5Score1.3k14d adds
- 197 The Immortal Path of Yingchuan 颍川仙途 The road to immortality is long and arduous! Ten thousand years ago, the war between immortals and demons shook the lower realm. The spiritual energy of the Yingchuan Continent fell into chaos, and the path to ascension mysteriously broke apart. Ten thousand years later, Qin Yi, a young scholar's attendant, embarks on the path of cultivation. By chance, he inherits his master's legacy and overcomes one obstacle after another, becoming the strongest cultivator in Yingchuan. When he sets out with 2.5kReads7.4Score29514d adds
- 198 Path of Slaughter 戮途 Horror cultivation + graphic violence. An ordinary mortal stumbles into the world of cultivation, where the strong prey on the weak and only the fittest survive. A highly intelligent villain, a protagonist who returns from the dead to take revenge, and the secrets behind the cultivation world and its immortals are gradually revealed. Why did the ancient Heavenly Court go to war with the Witch Clan? What consequences were left behind when the Soul Clan was wiped out? Are the Divine Clan’s followe 20Reads—Score—14d adds
- 199 My Talent Is Immortality 我的天赋是长生 [Everyday cultivation + longevity story + slow-burn pacing + occasional fiery moments] The good news: I awakened a longevity talent from the start, with an unlimited lifespan. The bad news: Even with eternal life, I can still die if someone kills me. Ten thousand years ago, he tactically retreated, putting everyone else in front of him. “The heroes of the world are truly as numerous as carp crossing the river. There are countless great men!” Ten thousand years later, Su Mu strikes back with a h 8Reads—Score—14d adds
- 200 Ancestor Xin 辛祖 [30,000 words posted daily] [Gets better as it goes] [Three heroines] [Classic xianxia] [Rags-to-riches rise] [Power fantasy] [Decisive and ruthless] [Invincible] [Passionate] [Fast-paced] Life is as brief as an ant's, a fate as insubstantial as dust. If Heaven won't let me climb high, I'll shatter these nine celestial heavens! If fate won't let me rule supreme, I'll forge the laws of all worlds anew! Only then will all beings across the myriad worlds learn that there is always a heaven beyond h 292Reads—Score—14d adds
